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MIDDLEWARE
2010
Springer
13 years 3 months ago
dFault: Fault Localization in Large-Scale Peer-to-Peer Systems
Distributed hash tables (DHTs) have been adopted as a building block for large-scale distributed systems. The upshot of this success is that their robust operation is even more imp...
Pawan Prakash, Ramana Rao Kompella, Venugopalan Ra...
CN
2010
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13 years 4 months ago
Secure peer sampling
PuppetCast is a protocol for secure peer sampling in large-scale distributed systems. A peer sampling protocol continuously provides each node in the system with a uniform random ...
Gian Paolo Jesi, Alberto Montresor, Maarten van St...
FGCS
2007
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13 years 4 months ago
FAIL-FCI: Versatile fault injection
One of the topics of paramount importance in the development of Grid middleware is the impact of faults, since their probability of occurrence in a Grid infrastructure and in larg...
William Hoarau, Sébastien Tixeuil, Fabien V...
JUCS
2008
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13 years 4 months ago
Model Interpreter Frameworks: A Foundation for the Analysis of Domain-Specific Software Architectures
: Prediction of the quality attributes of software architectures requires technologies that enable the application of analytic theories to component models. However, available anal...
George Edwards, Chiyoung Seo, Nenad Medvidovic
COMPLEXITY
2007
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13 years 4 months ago
What is the complexity of a distributed computing system?
Distributed computing systems are becoming bigger and more complex. While the complexity of large-scale distributed systems has been acknowledged to be an important challenge, the...
Anand Ranganathan, Roy H. Campbell
AAMAS
2010
Springer
13 years 4 months ago
Evolutionary mechanism design: a review
Abstract The advent of large-scale distributed systems poses unique engineering challenges. In open systems such as the internet it is not possible to prescribe the behaviour of al...
Steve Phelps, Peter McBurney, Simon Parsons
WSC
1998
13 years 6 months ago
Communicating Structures for Modeling Large-scale Systems
ating Structures is a system abstraction that helps to model large-scale distributed systems, whose performance mostly depends on how well the data and messages traffic is organiz...
Vadim E. Kotov
WOA
2003
13 years 6 months ago
A Programming Environment for Global Activity-based Applications
Abstract— This paper focuses on large-scale distributed systems that can be modeled as workflows of activities sharing resources, knowledge, know-how and services. We propose a ...
Flavio Corradini, Leonardo Mariani, Emanuela Merel...
CONEXT
2008
ACM
13 years 6 months ago
Nonlinear modeling of the internet delay structure
Modeling the Internet delay structure is an important issue in designing large-scale distributed systems. However, linear models fail to characterize Triangle Inequality Violation...
Xiao Wang, Yang Chen, Beixing Deng, Xing Li
MATA
2001
Springer
13 years 9 months ago
The Spider Model of Agents
We take the position that large-scale distributed systems are better understood, at all levels, when locality is taken into account. When communication and mobility are clearly se...
F. Y. Huang, David B. Skillicorn